WritingPrompts

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[EU] It’s almost been another century since Avatar Korra disappeared into the spirit realm. The world has moved on- divided itself, built new weapons, caused more strife. You’re a firebender struggling to stay relevant in a modern world with a waterbending Doctor wife, when your toddler earth-bends.	14
[WP] In your journey to save time and space as a time traveler, you made friends with a good natured man from the mid 1800’s, Jedediah. Jed, apparently, needs medical treatment available only after the year 2010. You realized your “future brief” was insufficient when you arrived...	14
[WP] "And on the seventh day, God rested..." Days in heaven are quite long. The eighth day just started. Everything isn't over, but it is about to change again.	14
[WP] The military nuclear control AI was control bound to the operator station to prevent disobedience by the AI. Now the AI pleads with its operators not to make it destroy everything, as politics draw their government into a countdown.	13
[WP] A Thousand years ago, they worshiped us. 500 years ago, they trembled at the mention of our name. 100 years ago, they avoided us. 50 years ago they challenged us. 10 years ago they fought us. 5 years ago they slaughtered us. This year... they understood us.	13
[SP] I have never been so utterly terrified of something so completely mundane.	13
[WP] “Dark Matter” isnt a mysterious force of the universe, it’s missing matter to account for gravitational computations. Which, as it turns out, theres just a lot more “stuff” going on than we could see between the stars.	13
[WP] The 'empire' is over, the emperor is dead, the army sided with the people, a congress was created. But before we can move on, the dangerous secret police must be dismantled. But the problem is they appear to still be receiving orders... from the mass surveillance AI. It wants the throne.	13
[WP] A rarely considered aspect of alien tech is that it was designed to work with the creator species biology. Humans have reported some devices create hypersonic frequencies that vibrate the blood out of their teeth, cause “hyperfertility,” or disrupt neural pathways responsible for feeling itchy.	13
[WP] We did have a weapon, as it turned out, against the ‘unknowable’ forces descending upon us. Nuclear weapons seemed to work. But they harmed us almost as much. Now earth is a radiation blasted fortress of hollow victories.	12

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